Nova in Cygnus

Hi,

The clouds have just broken after a deluge of heavy rain lasting over 50 hours non stop here in MA (now a disaster area)! so I popped up at 4am this morning to estimate this nova. (Keith, you had better luck with the weather in Ireland!)

Nova Cygni 2010 (now with official designation V407 Cyg) is a symbiotic star having a nova outburst. Is is currently easily observed in a small telescope.

See www.aavso.org for more details.

good luck,
John
Director, VSOG

(Keith, you had better luck with the weather in Ireland!)

Hi John, yes, I had a great view of it Monday night last, visual magnitude estimate at 8.7, and not for the first time in observing novae, I saw that it was quite red in appearance through the 8" SCT at x100.

It's clouded in since though, but the quicklook file shows that for the moment it is holding at about 8.8 visual, another RS Oph it seems

www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/newql.pl?name=v407%20cyg&output=html

Keith.